Regarding the "Greater viewing distance of higher-quality LOD geometry objects"

[Vesperion]

So... i don´t know why but this particular change now results in a somewhat strange view on a planet.


I mean... it is nice that i now can see nearly to whole fauna and flora... and bones accross the planet but still units that are "more then 10 pixels" away from me can still pop up out of nowhere. So yeah... playing on Ultra seems for me currently like not really worth activating it if it just allows me to see decorative stuff until the end of the planet

 

[KingSub]

So... i don´t know why but this particular change now results in a somewhat strange view on a planet.
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I mean... it is nice that i now can see nearly to whole fauna and flora... and bones accross the planet but still units that are "more then 10 pixels" away from me can still pop up out of nowhere. So yeah... playing on Ultra seems for me currently like not really worth activating it if it just allows me to see decorative stuff until the end of the planet

it looks not good on every planet if the fauna and flora are just like you showed upon the sky for ne reason - theres a cut betweeen the surface. so it looks not that good.

but calon looks very good and in- and out zoom in freecam is impressive, you see every detail and the graphic looks much smoother and these ugly edges are not a problem anymore. i think this is a big jump for pg, perhaps the fsp could be more stable.

low graphic stun turrets on calon



middle and high graphic are the same


but ultra gives another boost, look at the edges and how smooth it looks


calon middle graphics


calon high graphics, both are a lot better than before, or am i blinded by the lights? lol


you will see in the ultra variant more details, i like it, but it need a few adjustments in his performance


they upgraded the graphic bar again, i like it

 

[KingSub]

it looks not good on every planet if the fauna and flora are just like you showed upon the sky for ne reason - theres a cut betweeen the surface. so it looks not that good.

but calon looks very good and in- and out zoom in freecam is impressive, you see every detail and the graphic looks much smoother and these ugly edges are not a problem anymore. i think this is a big jump for pg, perhaps the fsp could be more stable.

low graphic stun turrets on calon

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middle and high graphic are the same
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but ultra gives another boost, look at the edges and how smooth it looks
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calon middle graphics
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calon high graphics, both are a lot better than before, or am i blinded by the lights? lol
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you will see in the ultra variant more details, i like it, but it need a few adjustments in his performance
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they upgraded the graphic bar again, i like it

just like on the stun turrets ...


ultra performs very well

 

[Eredin]

I'd like to mention that when I turn the "ultra" mode my game is turning with litteraly 40-50fps. My game is running in both my CPU and GPU (i5 and 1050 ti). Another friend with a RTX 3070 is having the same issue!
(Fullscreen & windowed mode = 40-50fps)

 

[KingSub]

I'd like to mention that when I turn the "ultra" mode my game is turning with litteraly 40-50fps. My game is running in both my CPU and GPU (i5 and 1050 ti). Another friend with a RTX 3070 is having the same issue!
(Fullscreen & windowed mode = 40-50fps)

i have the same system as a gaming notebook from acer and same issue

 

[KingSub]

i wont use it for the gameplay, but for recording it is more than an upgrade. as i said it need a few adjustment to full-fill the performance. and on some planets the ultra settings doesnt look good, as Vesperion showed us, i ve seen this in sirius too. the flora etc are like cutted from the surfrace and hanging in the sky. i dont like this but it depends in which view you see it.

i will upgrade my nvidia driver tomorrow to see if i get better results for the performance, but i dont think so. i must reduce the quality for the performance to use the ultra settings.

imagine you have this situation on a planet with 15+ pilots and active units. the fps drop would be massive. i only traveled with the freecam and the fps was dropped to ~44. anyway it looks good, we have to admire that. i wonder how the performance work out for the devs after they decided to make this update live and what system requirements this game actually needs.

i started pg with the amd athlon 64 3500+ with igpu in the mainboard from ati and 2 or 3 gb ram. it worked fine back then but i never cared about the performance. then again i played on a i3 with nvidia 610m it was a massive improvement with 4 gb ram. than i dropped a little bit, but this one had an ssd 8 gb ram and the and a6 7310 with boost and the r4 radeon graphic. still did a good job, but never used high settings. sirius was a master of fps drops back than. now my gaming notebook keeps everything 'okish'. i5 with boost and 1050ti and 8 gb ram, ssd

 

[Vesperion]

imagine you have this situation on a planet with 15+ pilots and active units. the fps drop would be massive

Well i don´t really need to imagine this as i remember the (very) old CQ times where it gave no restriction on how many pilots could land on a planet. In the absolut peek times we did have CQs of 70-100 Pilots and the lag was insane until the game could catch up again to see what side did win the battle in the clash .

 

[Shugoki]

I'd like to mention that when I turn the "ultra" mode my game is turning with litteraly 40-50fps. My game is running in both my CPU and GPU (i5 and 1050 ti). Another friend with a RTX 3070 is having the same issue!
(Fullscreen & windowed mode = 40-50fps)

Do you have this issue on every planet?
Try deactivating hyperthreading/multithreading in the Nvidia Control-Panel.
It helped me from having 40-50 FPS on Calon and EiU and still performs very well.
And try to set everything to „performance“ in the settings.

 

[Highway]

Yes there is an issue with the "Ultra" video setting that caused to much load on the CPU on planets with vegetation assets. Fix is in the works.

 

[Eredin]

Do you have this issue on every planet?
Try deactivating hyperthreading/multithreading in the Nvidia Control-Panel.
It helped me from having 40-50 FPS on Calon and EiU and still performs very well.
And try to set everything to „performance“ in the settings.

When you say "hyperthreading/multithreading" you mean this?



Edit: I tried what you said, and it's getting worse now I got 30 FPS. xD

 

[Shugoki]

When you say "hyperthreading/multithreading" you mean this?

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Edit: I tried what you said, and it's getting worse now I got 30 FPS. xD

oof.
Try texture filtering - quality to high performance.

If that doesn't help either, its may a problem with the launcher, but honestly after this won't help, i dont know how to help you further XD

 

[Razor2278]

in my opinion the ultra graphics still need a lot of improvement and in my opinion on some planets you can't see much difference between high and ultra in my opinion you could beautify the older planets a little more add some vegetation on the rocks etc some moss only two planets look better calon and venar on which you can see a big difference and on other systems you can't see much difference except for e.g. nicer, a little corrected edges of the mountains you could still beautify the older planets visually improve them to be more vivid I know that probably would need a lot of work but I hope that the graphics ultra will be improved and that there will be added more effects on other systems greetings

 

[Vesperion]

I think in regards of the settings PGs has the most simplified version i know as we only have the option Low, Medium, High and now Ultra.

Maybe it´s just me or i´m more used to have a array of options where i can individually select what i wanna have. For example i don´t really care for the vegetation that is 5km away from my current location while i would prefer a higher visible range of units in my FoV. I think that some of those whole lag issue may be able to solve when players could get a wider range of options to select from rather then predefining it already.

 

[Eredin]

oof.
Try texture filtering - quality to high performance.

If that doesn't help either, its may a problem with the launcher, but honestly after this won't help, i dont know how to help you further XD

Still the same thing, thanks anyway

 

[hektor.barbossa]

I think in regards of the settings PGs has the most simplified version i know as we only have the option Low, Medium, High and now Ultra.

Maybe it´s just me or i´m more used to have a array of options where i can individually select what i wanna have. For example i don´t really care for the vegetation that is 5km away from my current location while i would prefer a higher visible range of units in my FoV. I think that some of those whole lag issue may be able to solve when players could get a wider range of options to select from rather then predefining it already.

More useful will be have options on/off for fog,ashes,fire and like you say long distance XD

Also quality for objects map,own ship,other ships,drones visible on/off

Pg need a lot options to not look as a alfa test game.

 

[Highway]

Floating vegetation assets and peformance issue should be fixed with the hotfix:

Game Update February 18, 2022 (Hotfix)

Game Update February 18, 2022 Between 12:10 AM and 12:30 AM UTC+1, the game servers will restart for a game update to be deployed. Bug fixes Fixed game crashes when using "ultra" setting but the video card did not support multi render targets Fixed game crahses caused by the video card memory...

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